The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Set 1 (Volume 1)

From the end of the eighties onwards,, we collected every Calvin and Hobbes book released. The first few were nicely uniform and easy to hold single-handed (such as “Something under the bed is drooling” and “Yukon Ho!”. They looked good together on the bookshelf. Then, the format changed and the books were much bigger and in landscape format, making the opened book over half a metre wide (“Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat”). It became a two-handed operation to read, and ridiculously cumbersome when trying to enjoy a little bedtime reading. The anthologies were also large format, but portrait. A total mess on the bookshelf. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes collated the entire comic strip in four books, but these were even bigger than the earlier landscape releases (nearly 3/4 of a metre wide when open). That makes this new Portable Compendium series so very welcome. The packaging is portrait, but the individual books are landscape, and a much more manageable size, allowing single-handed support - perfect for bedtime reading. They are also consistent between collections, so they’ll look neat and tidy on your bookshelves. It also appears that the spines are going to be colour-graded so the final collection of seven volumes follows the colours of the visible spectrum. The content was never in question. This is one of the best comic strips out there. Now, you can have the perfect presentation as well!

Best comic books ever, amazing sense of humour. It feels like this stories are about ADHD child. Very funny, my 11year old love it and her dad! It’s brilliant and brings a sun to your home!

If you are looking at this as your first foray into the world of Calvin and Hobbes do not hesitate as they are great. Watterson is up there with Schultz and Barks as one of the great cartoonists; his work consistently makes me (and my 8 year old son) laugh and there is some profundity in his work as well. If you are already a fan: this is an accessible and easy way to read the strips. The complete collection is great and gives the cartoons the grandeur they deserve but for pick up and read, these are better. I will be getting the full series as they are released.

Sheer genius. If you haven’t embraced the Calvin and Hobbes’ universe, now’s the time. If you have, then revisiting them will remind you of their enduring brilliance.

You can’t beat Calvin & Hobbes

The drawings are great and this is a really lovely set.

Go buy this .. every family should have Calvin and Hobbs

Fantastic edition of the classic comic strip. Excellent quality, and in a lot more manageable of a size than other collected complete version. Look forward to collecting the rest of the volumes, and reading this comic again.

Amusant. Vocabulaire adapté pour un enfant qui est en train d'apprendre l'anglais.

This was the perfect gift for my son who loves of Calvin and Hobbes.

Always like Calvin and hobby as a kid. Never fails to make me laugh

Great edition, portable and easy to bring around. Good start to reading the whole collection.

Raccolta ‘portatile’ di Calvin e Hobbes, cronologica